Monthly Archives: October 2021

Urban Heat Islands

ABC misinforms on Sydney UHI and fires

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The article starts with some reasonable points about UHI in crowded new suburbs but then quoting an academic claims the BoM station sites do not reflect the UHI completely missing the fact the breezes and wind do blow and UHI affected air will move through the thermometer enclosures affecting BoM published weather observations.

Then further down quoting another academic in a para starting… [Studies following the 2019–20 bushfire season found that climate change had made fires a conservative 30 per cent more likely.] Statements are made about the 2019/20 fire season amazingly forgetting to quote the BoM’s Sep 2019 account of “Sudden Stratospheric Warming” over Antarctica and predictions for the coming 2019/2020 summer drought and fire season.
Surely Australian taxpayers deserve better than experts amnesia on this scale.

BoM Australia, Water

Bickley in Perth Hills wettest year since 1996

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As our PM heads to Glasgow to worship at the “net zero by 2050” altar it comforts us to know that climate change and “our drying climate” is still controlling Perth region rainfall. Bickley which has one of the consistently reporting rain gauges – has just had 1,247mm rain to 21Oct and a quick eyeball at monthly numbers shows there is a fair chance the blog headline might come to pass.

BoM Australia, News and Views

ScoMo Gov running dead on BoM evidence “Black Summer nothing to do with global warming”

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Can anybody cast light on why the 9 September 2019 findings published by the BoM and the ABC about the Antarctic phenomena “sudden stratospheric warming” have been effectively expunged from history. Despite the clear statements from BoM – now the narrative that the Black Summer fires and later floods were all “due to climate change” completely rules roost in public discourse.